This year, 2010, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association and the 125th anniversary of the publishing of a journal by the Association. From 1886 through 1888, the journal had the title The Phonetic Teacher, rendered variably as Dhi Fonètik Tîtcer (1886–1887), dhə fənetik tîtcər (1887–1888), ðə fonetik tîtcər (1888). From 1889 to 1970, the name of the journal was Le Maître Phonétique (lə mɛːtr fɔnetik, revised in 1895 to lə mɛːtrə fɔnetik) in which articles and letters were usually published in phonetic transcription; hence, the journal is traditionally referred to as the ‘mf’.